09
Jan
Why I Write by George Orwell
Orwell lists four “great motives for writing”: sheer egoism—the desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, to get your own back on the grown-ups who snubbed you in childhood (“It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive, and a strong one”)—aesthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse and political purpose. “By nature — taking your “nature” to be the state you have attained when you are first adult “, he writes, “I am a person in whom the first three motives would outweigh the fourth.”
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